Since Microsoft announced a global collaboration with Xamarin at the beginning of this year, the mobile app development world took notice of the relatively anonymous kin of the popular mobile app development across platforms.
To the layman Xamarin is just another platform for developing apps in C#. If you ask a techie he’ll beam at you before he goes on and on about how Xamarin has changed mobile app development and why is it the next big thing. If you are remotely interested in mobile apps, read on, we are about to tell you why Xamarin!
The buzz word with Xamarin is shared code.
Let’s say you are building the same application across platforms, Android, iOS and Windows and you want to write the code just once, is it possible? Of course it is. That’s what most mobile development platforms these days are trying to achieve. Increasing the re-usability of the code by adding native wrapper classes or native codes for integration with the native libraries is characteristic to any mobile app development platform. Xamarin claims that 75% of its code can be shared throughout different OS. If user interfaces are built with Xamarin.Forms, the shared code percentage could go well over 90%. Needless to say, this could be a huge time-saver!
Xamarin for Windows 10
Xamarin. The platform, Xamarin. Form, Xamarin Studio, Xamarin. Mac, Xamarin for Visual Studio, Xamarin Test Cloud, Robo VM, and .Net Mobility Scanner are all the products that are enlisted under Xamarin (now acquired by Microsoft)
.Net Mobility Scanner
Xamarin’s .Net Mobility Scanner lets developers see how much of their .NET code can run on other operating systems, specifically Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and Windows Store. It is a free Web-based service that uses Silverlight
All That You Can Do with Xamarin
Finance, healthcare, enterprise, utility. Anything that you name can be built using Xamarin. Xamarin is infact the best of both worlds. The re-usability of HTML5 and the native code ability of java, javascript and Objective C are all covered in this one technology.
For more on the Technology stay tuned. Our own developers are pretty keen to talk more on Xamarin and how it helps them build the awesome apps that they do! We are coming up with a sequel to this write up soon where we discuss the advantages of Xamarin over other platforms and the kind of apps that have been built using the platform.
Tell us more about your experiences with Xamarin as a developer or a client in the comments thread below.
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